AUTHOR: YAO -------- AH! KOKU ANYIDOHO PAAA. DR BAWUMIA'S CREDIBILITY IS NOW GROWING WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED SPEED WORLD WIDE. IN HOMES EVERYBODY IS PRAISING DR BAWUMIA FOR HIS DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY AND THE ... read full comment
AUTHOR: YAO -------- AH! KOKU ANYIDOHO PAAA. DR BAWUMIA'S CREDIBILITY IS NOW GROWING WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED SPEED WORLD WIDE. IN HOMES EVERYBODY IS PRAISING DR BAWUMIA FOR HIS DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY AND THE EFFICIENT WAY HE IS ASSISTING THE PRESIDENT. I KNOW FOR SURE THAT NDC IS SCARED OF HIM AND WILL LIKE TO DENT HIS IMAGE, BUT ISHA ALLAH DR WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT AFTER HIS EXCELLENCY NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO ADDO
RUNNING NOSE PRESIDENT 7 years ago
ASHANTI REGION, ASK THE RUNNING NOSE PRESIDENT, HIS GOING ROUND THE WORLD PROMISING. HEVERN AND ERTH,
ASHANTI REGION, ASK THE RUNNING NOSE PRESIDENT, HIS GOING ROUND THE WORLD PROMISING. HEVERN AND ERTH,
Kwame Ansah 7 years ago
"Hevern and Erth" ampa! 3b)n paa nie! Kwasia like you have access to technology to spew thrash about your president. You should join the queue to be enrolled in his free shs to get a better education. Dumb fuck
"Hevern and Erth" ampa! 3b)n paa nie! Kwasia like you have access to technology to spew thrash about your president. You should join the queue to be enrolled in his free shs to get a better education. Dumb fuck
GEORGE 7 years ago
Only in Ghana will illiterates carry Bawumia as the best economist. Tell that liar that the cedis is sinking like water running.419 Bawumiliar
Only in Ghana will illiterates carry Bawumia as the best economist. Tell that liar that the cedis is sinking like water running.419 Bawumiliar
Bbb, 7 years ago
Mahama and the NDC must stay in the opposition for 40 years they have mismanaged the country so badly.
Mahama and the NDC must stay in the opposition for 40 years they have mismanaged the country so badly.
JOHN 7 years ago
MAHAMA IS NO MORE IN POWER SO NPP WHO PROMISED GHANAIANS MANNA FROM HEAVEN SHOULD SORT IT OUT. ONE OF THEIR CAMPAIGN MESSAGE WAS THAT THE NHIS IS COLLAPSED AND WHEN THEY COME TO POWER, THEY WILL SEE TO IT
MAHAMA IS NO MORE IN POWER SO NPP WHO PROMISED GHANAIANS MANNA FROM HEAVEN SHOULD SORT IT OUT. ONE OF THEIR CAMPAIGN MESSAGE WAS THAT THE NHIS IS COLLAPSED AND WHEN THEY COME TO POWER, THEY WILL SEE TO IT
Suwebatu, London 7 years ago
You keep saying that if it makes you feel better wai.
You keep saying that if it makes you feel better wai.
AZAA 7 years ago
Nana Addo told Ghanaians that the money is there. Who should stock the money for him to enjoy. Keep quite and fix it. You think governance is a child's play. OYA
Nana Addo told Ghanaians that the money is there. Who should stock the money for him to enjoy. Keep quite and fix it. You think governance is a child's play. OYA
Dada Yaw 7 years ago
when you allow people like Dr Daniel Essien (google his name) to siphon billions to build their private hospitals out of the NHIS what do you expect?
when you allow people like Dr Daniel Essien (google his name) to siphon billions to build their private hospitals out of the NHIS what do you expect?
Nyansah Kofi Francis 7 years ago
this is too bad and can only happen in africa, what a disgrace to Ghana.
this is too bad and can only happen in africa, what a disgrace to Ghana.
Sahh 7 years ago
The npp think governance is simple like demonstration.
The npp think governance is simple like demonstration.
Suwebatu, London 7 years ago
Exactly my friend. Change has come. Let's all enjoy it.
Exactly my friend. Change has come. Let's all enjoy it.
Ghana nti 7 years ago
Oh good, safety first
Oh good, safety first
AB 7 years ago
Government' takes over the assets as well as debts and once in the driving seat now has full responsibility. Blaming anything in the past does not resolve the questions before us.
Government' takes over the assets as well as debts and once in the driving seat now has full responsibility. Blaming anything in the past does not resolve the questions before us.
Tekonline.org 7 years ago
PUBLIC RELEASE: 11-MAY-2017
Can crab shells provide a 'green' solution to malaria?
Study shows how a mixture of chitin and silver nanoparticles inhibits growth of mosquito larvae
SPRINGER
A non-toxic mixture ... read full comment
PUBLIC RELEASE: 11-MAY-2017
Can crab shells provide a 'green' solution to malaria?
Study shows how a mixture of chitin and silver nanoparticles inhibits growth of mosquito larvae
SPRINGER
A non-toxic mixture of chitin-rich crab shell powder and nanosized silver particles could be an environmentally friendly way of curbing the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes, and malaria in particular. This is according to a series of experiments led by Jiang-Shiou Hwang of the National Taiwan Ocean University. The findings are published in Springer's journal Hydrobiologia.
Mosquitoes carry diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, the Zika virus and encephalitis. Despite more than 100 years of research on the subject, malaria remains a global health problem, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. In 2013, the number of malaria cases was estimated at 198 million, and the number of malaria-related deaths at 548 000. According to the World Health Organization, one child dies every minute from malaria in Africa. Products such as organophosphates, insect growth regulators, microbial control agents and organic solutions are used in efforts to control mosquito populations and the spread of the disease.
Hwang's team turned their attention to chitosan or chitin, a non-toxic natural substance that has been used in wound healing, as drug carriers and in manufacturing membrane water filters and biodegradable food package coating. Chitin is found in animal tissues, such as the exoskeletons of arthropods, bird beaks and insect eggs. It can easily be chemically changed, is quite strong and, because of its abundance in nature, is cost-effective to use.
The research team first crushed and oven-dried the exoskeletons of a number of hydrothermal vent crabs (Xenograpsus testudinatus) before extracting the chitin and other minerals. The subsequent creamy-white filtrate was then mixed with silver nitrate (AgNO3) to obtain a brown-yellow solution of silver nanoparticles (AgNP).
The solution was sprayed over six water reservoirs at the National Institute of Communicable Disease Centre in Coimbatore in India. Even in small concentrates it killed mosquito larvae and pupa quite effectively. It had the greatest effect during the early stages of the mosquito larvae's development.
The solution was also tested in conjunction with freshwater goldfish (Carassiu auratus) that fed on mosquito larvae. The nanoparticle solution did not have any effect on the fish, indicating that it is an environmentally friendly and non-toxic product. It also inhibited the growth of disease-causing bacterial species such as Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Proteus vulgaris.
"This research highlighted that chitosan-fabricated silver nanoparticles are easy to produce, stable over time, and can be employed at low dosages to strongly reduce populations of the malaria vector, the Anopheles sundaicus mosquito, without detrimental effects on the predation of natural mosquito enemies, such as goldfishes," says Hwang. "It also effectively inhibits important bacterial pathogens."
Hwang hypothesizes that the nanosized particles pass through the insect cuticles and into individual cells to then interfere with various physiological processes that are part of a mosquito's life cycle.
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Reference: Hwang, K.S. (et al). Chitosan-fabricated Ag nanoparticles and larvivorous fishes: a novel route to control the coastal malaria vector Anopheles sundaicus? Hydrobiologia DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3196-1
kwaku 7 years ago
When NPP was in opposition, they shouted on the rooftops that the government of NDC is mismanaging the proceeds from the NHIS that is why service providers re being owned. But what do we see,has the government of Nana Addo an ... read full comment
When NPP was in opposition, they shouted on the rooftops that the government of NDC is mismanaging the proceeds from the NHIS that is why service providers re being owned. But what do we see,has the government of Nana Addo and NPP paid the four months owned to NHIS service provided?
kaya 7 years ago
Tell your president to pay you because he promised to settle the service providers of NHIS all the unpaid monies within 100 days in office if he won power and God not being a yuroba man has granted him the power.
Tell your president to pay you because he promised to settle the service providers of NHIS all the unpaid monies within 100 days in office if he won power and God not being a yuroba man has granted him the power.
AUTHOR: YAO -------- AH! KOKU ANYIDOHO PAAA. DR BAWUMIA'S CREDIBILITY IS NOW GROWING WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED SPEED WORLD WIDE. IN HOMES EVERYBODY IS PRAISING DR BAWUMIA FOR HIS DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY AND THE ...
read full comment
ASHANTI REGION, ASK THE RUNNING NOSE PRESIDENT, HIS GOING ROUND THE WORLD PROMISING. HEVERN AND ERTH,
"Hevern and Erth" ampa! 3b)n paa nie! Kwasia like you have access to technology to spew thrash about your president. You should join the queue to be enrolled in his free shs to get a better education. Dumb fuck
Only in Ghana will illiterates carry Bawumia as the best economist. Tell that liar that the cedis is sinking like water running.419 Bawumiliar
Mahama and the NDC must stay in the opposition for 40 years they have mismanaged the country so badly.
MAHAMA IS NO MORE IN POWER SO NPP WHO PROMISED GHANAIANS MANNA FROM HEAVEN SHOULD SORT IT OUT. ONE OF THEIR CAMPAIGN MESSAGE WAS THAT THE NHIS IS COLLAPSED AND WHEN THEY COME TO POWER, THEY WILL SEE TO IT
You keep saying that if it makes you feel better wai.
Nana Addo told Ghanaians that the money is there. Who should stock the money for him to enjoy. Keep quite and fix it. You think governance is a child's play. OYA
when you allow people like Dr Daniel Essien (google his name) to siphon billions to build their private hospitals out of the NHIS what do you expect?
this is too bad and can only happen in africa, what a disgrace to Ghana.
The npp think governance is simple like demonstration.
Exactly my friend. Change has come. Let's all enjoy it.
Oh good, safety first
Government' takes over the assets as well as debts and once in the driving seat now has full responsibility. Blaming anything in the past does not resolve the questions before us.
PUBLIC RELEASE: 11-MAY-2017
Can crab shells provide a 'green' solution to malaria?
Study shows how a mixture of chitin and silver nanoparticles inhibits growth of mosquito larvae
SPRINGER
A non-toxic mixture ...
read full comment
When NPP was in opposition, they shouted on the rooftops that the government of NDC is mismanaging the proceeds from the NHIS that is why service providers re being owned. But what do we see,has the government of Nana Addo an ...
read full comment
Tell your president to pay you because he promised to settle the service providers of NHIS all the unpaid monies within 100 days in office if he won power and God not being a yuroba man has granted him the power.